LINE command

- (Instructor) We're starting another chapter nowin our DraftSight Essentials course,and what we're going to be looking atis actually drawing entities in our DraftSight drawing.So we've got a new drawing for you,completely blank,and it's called10_Drawing.dwg.Highly imaginative, I know,but it describes what we're going to do.So, 10_Drawing.dwgis available on the website.You can download itand use it to follow along with the videos,just like we've done in all the other chapters.

When you open it,you'll notice that it opens in the A1 landscape sheets tab.What I'd like you to do,is jump into the model tab,and you'll notice that the gridis switched on when you do that.So, what we'll do is, we'll switch the grid offdown on the status bar, like sothat we've got a nice clear graphics area to work in.Then what we're going to do is jump into the home tabon the ribbon,and in the layer dropdown here,we're going to look at all the layersthat we've got available.

Now you'll notice there's lots of different ones there,and what I want us to do,is I want us to actually draw an architectural wall.So it's actually this layer here, A-Wall.So we're going to select that, like so,and we're in the drawing area,the graphics area, ready to start drawing.And what we're going to dois we're just going to draw four lines,using the line command.Now make sure, down at the bottom of the screen,you've got these three icons switched on,Polar,E Snap,and also E Track.

They'll make your life a little bit easier.You'll see why in a moment.So in the home tab on the ribbon now,we've got the draw panel, because we're drawing,and we're going to go up to the top left iconand click on the flyout and select the line command.Now obviously, you can type the word lineand that will also operate the line command as well.Starting towards the bottom left part of the screen,click once.And then dragging to the right,can you see that white dashed line?That is your polar tracking line.

So that's your polar kicking in.As long as that white dashed line is visible,you know that when you drag along horizontally to the right,you know that you are exactly at zero degreesgoing along to the right there.And that's the good thing about polar,is it ties you in to these angles.Now, I'm going to drag this along to the rightand I'm going to type 5,000down there on the command window.That's giving DraftSight a direct distance to move alongto the right, along the polar tracking line.

Press enter once,and you'll see that you've drawn a horizontal line.Take the mouse and the crosshair vertically upwards,like so,again, you'll see the polar tracking kicking in.Soon as it kicks in, 5,000 again,and then enter again,and you'll see you've now got a vertical line.Drag across to the left,until the polar tracking kicks in horizontally again,5,000 one more time,and then enter.Now because you're drawing a number of segments,what you can do now is just right click on the mouse,and you'll see on the context menu,you've got a close option.

It will close back to the point you've started from.So, if I click on close,closes it out and I've got a nice little square there,each side, 5,000 units.Now, those 5,000 units,are in this case, 5,000 millimeters.Now, as we work through these videos,what I want you to do is save the drawing as you go.Before you do that though,just pan it across so you've got it roughly centered,and then zoom in just a couple of notcheson the wheel there,so that you just got a bit more scopeand you can kind of see a bit more what's going on.

I know it's a very simple drawing right now,but as we work through it,it's better to zoom in and be able to seewhat you're doing,when you're drawing in your DraftSight drawings.

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6/16/2017

DraftSight Professional provides straight-forward 2D documentation, design, and drafting tools with a toolbox, a standards-based mechanical symbol library, and a mechanical annotation add-on. This course provides you with the essential techniques required to effectively use DraftSight 2017 Professional. Join Shaun Bryant as he shows you how to develop and optimize DraftSight drawings, and how to start setting up 2D DraftSight drawings from templates. This course is ideal for DraftSight beginners, with working experience of the Microsoft Windows operating system.